CRETACEOUS PERIOD Find out about dinosaurs from the cretaceous period!

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CRETACEOUS PERIOD

Find out about dinosaurs from the cretaceous

period!

LANDSCAPEThe landscape in the cretaceous period was a super continent called Pangea.

Then all the land was not split apart like today every country was

Together!

CLIMATEThe climate wasn’t as hot as the Triassic but not as cold as the Jurassic! It’s the middle!

FIRST DINOSAURS

The first dinosaurs were Megarapter,ankylosaurs,hadrosaurus and more.

OTHER ANIMALS DURING PERIOD

During the cretaceous birds replaced pterosaurs in the sky!

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PLANTS AND VEGETATION

One of the plants that evolved was the modern black pepper and achaefructus liaoningensis plants

GIGANTOSAURUS

Weighs up to 14 tons

Lived 99.6 million years ago.

TROODON

•Was discovered by tooth.

•2.4 metres long.

TRICERATOPS

• Its four stumpy legs and used the three horns on its for protection.

• This quadraped (four footed) dinosaur walked on all fours.

THE END

Scientists believe that a huge asteroid hit the earth and smoke rised and breathed in the smoke and killed all the dinosaurs but others believe that’s not true.